Posts by Mad Sweeney

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Under construction but live - FREEMINDS 2.0

by Dogpatch in

jw
friends

check out the new freeminds 2.0 currently at:.

http://freeminds2.org.

so the old and new will be combined all in one site shortly at freeminds.org.

The Faithful & Discreet Slave Gets World Wide Notoriety In For The America's BIGGEST Payout In A Child Abuse Case 28,000,000 Leaving Jesus With No Choice Except To Find A Replacement

by frankiespeakin in

i know this has been posted before anyhow i thought this a good title to post it under:.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160605/candance-conti-molested-jehovahs-witnesses-member-age-nine-wins-28milion.html.

woman molested by jehovah's witnesses member at age nine wins $28million in america's biggest religious sex abuse payout .

Which makes me wonder just how they're going to spin an answer to those who ask the inevitable question: since you have not yet been appointed over all his belongings, why exactly should anyone listen to you? (I haven't read the entire July WT, only excerpts, so maybe they addressed this already.)

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The Faithful & Discreet Slave Gets World Wide Notoriety In For The America's BIGGEST Payout In A Child Abuse Case 28,000,000 Leaving Jesus With No Choice Except To Find A Replacement

by frankiespeakin in

i know this has been posted before anyhow i thought this a good title to post it under:.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160605/candance-conti-molested-jehovahs-witnesses-member-age-nine-wins-28milion.html.

woman molested by jehovah's witnesses member at age nine wins $28million in america's biggest religious sex abuse payout .

Mad Sweeney

17:15 in the video to get to the Borg trial section.

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Why did you stop believing in God?

by The Quiet One in

Mad Sweeney

I stopped believing in everything.

There are things with a preponderance of evidence, enough evidence for me to proceed through life as if they are true.

There are things with a lack of evidence, such a lack that it is only practical for me to proceed through life as if they are false. Bible god is one of these.

There are A LOT of things I simply don't know enough about to make an informed decision. These things are waiting for me to learn them. :)

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Build it and Make Them Come

by OnTheWayOut in

it's the same old story with watchtower, even at the local level.. my mother has to drive a slightly uncomfortable distance to her kingdom hall in affluent suburbia.

she doesn't mind because the neighborhoods are nice and she sticks to main streets, but she is coming home by herself late on thursday night.

(she is married to an unbeliever.

Mad Sweeney

This thread wasn't about what I had hoped.

But yeah, it's a shame how the Borg railroads the local congregations into keeping their Regional Building Racket going.

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Who has experienced a REAL demonic incident?

by Monsieur in

has anybody here experienced a bonafide, real, true incident in whicy 'demons' actually interacted with you or did something 'supernatural' that left you convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that satan and his demons exist??.

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Mad Sweeney

Freshman psych class taught me that eyewitness testimony is among the most unreliable forms of evidence around. My psych teacher would get out of jury duty every time just by saying he's a psychologist whose research focuses on the unreliability of eyewitness testimony.

Just because you experience something doesn't mean you're qualified to interpret the experience.

That said, just because something happens in your head doesn't mean it isn't real.

But what does "real" mean? There is no evidence for actual invisible beings walking around our planet nor is there any testable hypothesis I know of for how such an invisible being could even be possible. (If there is, I think that would be cool to read about, so post a link. )

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BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME.....let's rebuild!

by Terry in

okay we've all beat our chest, lamented and throttled the dead horse of aawa.. time to move on!.

i suggest those of us on j-w.n who care about creating something the right way take the trouble to get the framework going.. let's do the grunt work and get the nattering, debates, naming and organizing already pre-approved so that "others" who have the talent, ability, motivation and resources can move in and turn the key!.

because it was not done before.. there is more wisdom on this discussion board in our vast numbers than there could possibly be in a virtual boardroom with 8 people brain-storming.. that isn't an insult--it is just a statistical fact!.

Mad Sweeney

Of course the letters won't be read after the first dozen or so, Las Malvinas son Argentinas, but if they get hundreds of them on the same day it's sure to get the attention of the people who usually check the mail. Maybe it helps just one person there in the mail room to start wondering. That's worth more than a paper/stamp/envelope.

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BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME.....let's rebuild!

by Terry in

okay we've all beat our chest, lamented and throttled the dead horse of aawa.. time to move on!.

i suggest those of us on j-w.n who care about creating something the right way take the trouble to get the framework going.. let's do the grunt work and get the nattering, debates, naming and organizing already pre-approved so that "others" who have the talent, ability, motivation and resources can move in and turn the key!.

because it was not done before.. there is more wisdom on this discussion board in our vast numbers than there could possibly be in a virtual boardroom with 8 people brain-storming.. that isn't an insult--it is just a statistical fact!.

Mad Sweeney

Terry, you rock, bro.

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The Advocates for Awareness of Watchtower Abuses (AAWA) [WARNING]

by Simon in

uncensored discussions and information for anyone interested in the advocates for awareness of watchtower abuses or 'aawa' http://aawa.co/ (previously known as "the association of anti-watchtower activists http://jwactivists.org/) and how it's handled and responded to privacy issues and put people at risk:.

aawa is here!!

(the association of anti-watchtower activists)an invitation to a new effort- aawawhy when i logged onto aawa did it go to facebook ?in regards to aawaaawa - every generation needs a new revolution - thomas jeffersonnotice how the introduction of the aawa has brought out the loonies lately?will aawa become another cult?

Mad Sweeney

you have done this before ... attacked me ... saying I'm stuck in JW judgemental mode ... you muppet ....and you have gotten away with it as I don't have enough posts to get into long discussions.

No I haven't. I don't attack people.

Once again, I advise knowing what the hell you're talking about before you click "Submit."

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The Advocates for Awareness of Watchtower Abuses (AAWA) [WARNING]

by Simon in

uncensored discussions and information for anyone interested in the advocates for awareness of watchtower abuses or 'aawa' http://aawa.co/ (previously known as "the association of anti-watchtower activists http://jwactivists.org/) and how it's handled and responded to privacy issues and put people at risk:.

aawa is here!!

(the association of anti-watchtower activists)an invitation to a new effort- aawawhy when i logged onto aawa did it go to facebook ?in regards to aawaaawa - every generation needs a new revolution - thomas jeffersonnotice how the introduction of the aawa has brought out the loonies lately?will aawa become another cult?

Mad Sweeney

lost, your rhetoric and bashing is getting tiresome. The reason why some of us trust AAWA leaders' motives is because some of us know some of them personally and know they're good people who have ALREADY helped many before ever forming this organization. Just because you're a noob who has never met any of these people doesn't make them nobodies in the ex-JW community.

Did they screw up? Yes. Did they take a long time to try to fix it? Yes. That can be problematic for people who don't know what they're talking about but here's some good advice: when you don't know what you're talking about, STFU.

I told my friends in AAWA that it is wrong to paint JWN with a broad brush as opposers to their efforts and I will tell you something similar: it is wrong to paint all of AAWA with a broad brush as "a right bunch of conmen."

If you don't want their help as an ex-JW because you don't trust them, that's fine. If you don't want to help them as a volunteer because you don't trust them, that's fine, too. But when you continually resort to name-calling and pontificating you have crossed a line. Take a note from how Simon has behaved through this. He's been critical but respectful and practical. You just keep ranting. Help or don't help but do no harm.